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California hotel invests in temperature-reading tech
(Hotel News Now, 2020-12-16)This article introduces the implementation of the new technology in the hotel; the thermal imaging and fever detection to keep guests and employees health and safety in the property. -
California hotel invests in temperature-reading tech
(Hotel News Now, 2020-12-16)Thermal image technology is being used in a California hotel to determine the temperature of guests upon arrival. The radar scans people who pass through the lobby of the property and flag individuals who's temperature are ... -
California to stop controversial third-party delivery tactic in 2021
(2020-09-25)California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Fair Food Delivery Act, which prevents third-party delivery companies from delivering food without their consent starting in 2021. While delivery applications put their efforts to ... -
California Tourism Industry Lobbies Governor for Reopening Plan
(Northstar Meetings Group, 2021-03-05)California Governor Gavin Newsome has put travel and tourism professionals in a bind by note clearly outlining guidelines towards re-opening the state and welcoming events back. The CVBs across California have been scrambling ... -
California's Glorietta Bay Inn invests in sustainability
(2018-10-01)Historic resort hotel Glorietta Bay Inn in Coronado,Calif., unveiled several recent investments in environmental initiatives and sustainable solutions for the property's ongoing daily hotel operations. The initiatives ... -
Can Customer Based Brand Equity Help Destinations to Stay in Race? An Empirical Study of Kashmir Valley [Summary]
(Virginia Tech, 2020-03-12)Purpose – Current study focus on measuring the customer based brand equity of a tourist destination (CBBETD) named Kashmir valley (India). Design – A structured questionnaire was prepared, using Man (2010) consisting of ... -
Can we contain the COVID-19 outbreak with the same measures as for SARS? [Summary]
(Virginia Tech, 2020-05-03)The severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak in 2003 resulted in more than 8000 cases and 800 deaths. SARS was eventually contained by means of syndromic surveillance, prompt isolation of patients, strict enforcement ... -
Carnival CEO, several airlines sign their names to an ad opposing voter suppression laws
(Travel Weekly, 2021-04-14)Voting is the lifeblood of our democracy, and we call upon all Americans to join us in taking a nonpartisan stand for this most basic and fundamental right of all Americans," read the statement, which along with hundreds ... -
A case study investigation of strategy implementation in three multi-unit restaurant firms
(Virginia Tech, 1992)The primary objective of this study was to conduct an exploratory investigation of the process of strategy implementation in multi-unit restaurant firms. A model comprised of five context variables and five process variables ... -
A case study: creating and sustaining competitive advantage through an information technology application in the lodging industry
(Virginia Tech, 1996-09-26)The use of information technology (IT) is becoming an essential component within the commercial sector. While large number of companies have adopted IT applications to achieve competitive advantage, and number of studies ... -
Casinos, Other Businesses Fight for Workers Amid Tight Vegas Labor Market
(Las Vegas Sun, 2021-05-11)Covid-19 devastated the hospitality in Las Vegas. Now the local economy is seeing more demand and has called back the majority of workers still interested in their past positions. There has been a shortage of workers since ... -
Castell Project Partners with She Has a Deal to Build Fortuna's Table
(Lodging Magazine, 2021-04-23)The Castell Project and She Has a Deal have partnered together to create a joint venture called Fortuna's Table. She Has a Deal specializes in the real estate investment platform that works with hotel ownership and development ... -
Castell Project Releases 2021 Report on Women Leaders in Hospitality
(Lodging Magazine, 2021-04-28)Although the pandemic escalated to new heights during the COVID-19 pandemic, industry leaders understand that this does not mean we have to go back to the way things were pre-pandemic. The Castell Project highlighted for ... -
Categorizing peer-to-peer review site features and examining their impacts on room sales [Summary]
(Virginia Tech, 2019-03-05)This study examines the impacts of online review features on hotel Online Room Sales for various types of hotel segments utilizing a dataset that includes 227,378 post-purchase customer review comments for 1,092 hotels. ... -
A Causal Model of Linkages between Environment and Organizational Structure, and Its Performance Implications in International Service Distribution: An Empirical Study of Restaurant and Hotel Industry
(Virginia Tech, 2005-04-14)This research develops and tests a model of the service unit ownership and control patterns used by international service companies. The main purpose of this study is to investigate trivariate causal relationships among ... -
CDC Says To Stay Home, But 45 Million People Will Travel Anyways This Thanksgiving
(Northstar Meetings Group, 2020-11-20)U.S. Travel Association President & CEO, Roger Dow, pleads with travelers to wear their mask to not only protect themselves, but those around them this Thanksgiving holiday. Dow continued to push the message out that the ... -
Celebrating Black Culture
(Travel Weekly, 2021-02-08)The article aims to offer its reader a more complete picture of the Black cultural story of America by highlighting the unwritten stories that make these cultural places into what they are. Performing arts, restaurants, ... -
CEOs hope for a strong 2021 as crisis continues
(Hotel News Now, 2020-11-09)Ceos from Acccor, Best Wester, Hyatt, Hilton, IHG, and Marriott stressed to "control the controllable" during NYU's virtual hotel summit. According to STR the industry should improve 45% in 2021 compared to 2020 levels and ... -
The challenge of getting restaurant workers to come back
(2020-09-03)This article describes the challenge of restaurant owners about getting back their employees to work for several reasons after the breakout of Covid-19. Though restaurants reopen, its employees are still hesitant to get ... -
Challenges of marketing and sales management in a city hotel - Using the example of hotel zeitgeist vienna [Summary]
(Virginia Tech, 2020-11-29)From the study, several suggestions were given for service and experience-oriented tourism and hospitality industries in Vienna. First, setting and maintaining a CRM database is required the first step in order to make ...
